A Polluter's Feast ~ Rolling Stone

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7605389...

What can you say about the environmental record of an administration that seeks to test pesticides on poor children and pregnant women? That argues in court that a dam is part of a salmon's natural environment? That places a timber lobbyist in charge of the national forests and an oil lobbyist in charge of government reports on global warming? That cuts clean-air inspections at oil refineries in half, allows Superfund to go bankrupt and permits the mining industry to pump toxic waste directly into a wild Alaskan lake?
Only this: It's about to get even worse.

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Public outrage has forced the administration to give up a few of its wildest schemes: "blending" raw sewage into drinking water, for example, or exempting 20 million acres of wetlands from the Clean Water Act. But most of Bush's efforts to gut the nation's environmental protections are so incremental, they go unnoticed by the public -- even when they have far-reaching consequences. In August, the Forest Service quietly adjusted the numbers it uses to weigh the benefits of logging vs. tourism, slashing the "recreational value" of the forests by $100 billion. The EPA went a step further: Under its old cost-benefit formula, the agency valued each human life saved from toxic pollution at $6.1 million. But thanks to a new rule, the cost of polluting people to death has plummeted: Under Bush, your life has officially been devalued by $2.4 million.

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How can this stand? HOW can our "ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES" allow this? Who do they think they work for?

[NoBushSpokenHere]

1. When I flew into DC I was shocked that almost every river

I saw looked horrid! Oily glaze over murky water. It was obvious there had been serious consequences of "relaxing" environmental standards. People, our kids need clean air and water!

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2. They are trying to get to the aquifiers

here in Austin too!

To quote the man whom George W. Bush says he worships:
"what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul"?

[Lisa]

4. and the stuff you can't see is even worse!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33850-2004Oct14.html

" MOOREFIELD, W.Va. -- The South Branch of the Potomac River is as clear as bottled water here, where it rolls over a bed of smooth stones about 230 miles upstream from Washington. But there is a mystery beneath this glassy surface.

Many of the river's male bass are producing eggs."



Heaven help me, I am fantasizing about Bush, Cheney, Rove -- the whole bunch of them -- starting to grow female sexual organs as a result of this. (Although it wouldn't be a punishment for them ... they're so in love with themselves that they would probably be sitting there, ogling themselves all day.)

[Why Syzygy]

5. So . genetic defects are the name of the game?

Why am I not surprised?

JFC in a trench coat.

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3. Why are we not screaming about this too?

Let's get the "war" OVER and BRING THEM HOME. Then we surely must address this issue agressively.